Subject: Toby Keith

• Luck o' the Lupine

  March 20, 2007

• Roll Over, Moby

  December 6, 2006

• Daily Briefs: McClanahan's Secret, Rising Car Thefts

  February 11, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Flaming barns, patriotism and your new Hitler

  June 30, 2008

• James McMurtry's "Choctaw Bingo" and the Good Kind of Incestual Lust

  August 14, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Strong buy on Kevlar

  September 22, 2008

• Big Fat Loser Turned Country Singer to Play in Kansas City

  October 6, 2008

• Flaming Lips Updates: March of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons, Christmas on Mars Release

  October 15, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  By Randall RobertsYou don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'

  December 18, 2008

• Toby Keith's I Love This Daily Briefs

  I've always had trouble writing "News of the Weird"-type posts. Because they're like the journalistic equivalent of those wacky cans of peanut brittle that turns out to have CRAZY SPRINGY SNAKES INSIDE! And what am I, Mr. Krazy Headlines So Weird They're True? Which is what I asked Justin while we were shaking the vending machine in the hallway. "More like Mr. Ten Year Old Girl," said Justin. "If you owned a restaurant, it would be called Toby Keith's I Love This My First Bra™ Training Bra."

  December 23, 2008

• Patriotica Games

  September 5, 2002

• Darryl Worley

  June 19, 2003

• Grandaddy

  July 17, 2003

• Jerry Dowell

  July 24, 2003

• F'd Troop

  December 16, 2004

• Jingo Was His Name, Oh

  December 30, 2004

• Live Nation launches "No Service Fee Wednesday"

  In a wonderful little thing that started at 12:01am today, Live Nation will not charge service fees on Wednesdays. According to Billboard, every Wednesday throughout the rest of the summer, Live Nation will offer a variety of "No Service Fee Wednesdays" specials at LiveNation.com. Tickets without service fees are available at all Live Nation-ticketed amphitheaters for concerts including blink-182, Coldplay, No Doubt, Nickelback, Depeche Mode, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Crue Fest, Def Leppard/Poi

  June 3, 2009

• Are You a Celebrity?

  Famous yet?

  October 23, 2008

• Rex Hobart's Chuck Wagon Dinner Show

  February 28, 2008

• Fred Eaglesmith

  September 20, 2007

• God Bless the U.S.A.

  May 31, 2007

• The Mouths of Babes

  October 12, 2006

• The Other WT

  August 24, 2006

• Hank Williams III

  June 22, 2006

• Casino Idol

  At an AI rip-off, we learn that camel toe makes damn good TV.

  February 16, 2006

• Down-Home Delights

  December 29, 2005

• With a Side of Cowboy

  December 22, 2005

• Free Fall

  Letters from the week of December 15, 2005

  December 15, 2005

• Toby Loves the Bologna

  PBR in a jar and boys with kielbasas at Kansas City's new theme bar.

  December 1, 2005

• Loretta Lynn

  August 25, 2005

• Cirque du Soul

  Casual Cal puts on lessons in livin'.

  October 7, 2004

• Vote for Change

  Tuesday, October 5, at the Midland Theater.

  September 30, 2004

• Hot Rocks

  Nothing says "summer concert" like drowning pools, puddles of mud and poison.

  May 20, 2004

• Toby Keith

  Saturday, January 24, at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan.

  January 22, 2004

• Messin' With Texas

  Musicians take cracks at G-Dub, with varying results.

  January 22, 2004

• Forty Twenty

  Friday, December 5, at Davey's Uptown / Saturday, December 6, at the Bottleneck

  December 4, 2003

• Jeff Bates

  Friday, August 29, at Santa CaliGon Days, 210 W. Truman Road in Independence.

  August 28, 2003

• Travelin' Soldiers

  Here's what passes for moral clarity these days.

  May 8, 2003

• War on War Songs

  Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest.

  March 27, 2003

• God Squad

  Some musicians declare themselves Chosen Ones, while others maintain God's not taking sides.

  August 29, 2002

• Merle Haggard

  Sunday, August 25, at the Beaumont Club.

  August 22, 2002

• The Saw Doctors

  Villains (Ryko/Shamtown)

  February 28, 2002

• 26 Days of Glossy Nostalgia: B is for...

  Back in the '90s, traveling burlesque troupes had not yet refined their understandings of what audiences wanted from a retro-vaudeville performance. (Today's burlesque troupes haven't, either, which is that audiences don't want them, period.)Click on image for a bigger 'Stiff. This explains the bricolage approach of The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, today's entry in a series featuring old photos from the Pitch music archives that will keep going until someone comes and takes eight boxes of worthle

  June 10, 2009

• Best Comfort Food 2008: O'Neill's Restaurant & Bar

  January 8, 2009

• First Friday Destination: The Late Show Gallery

  July's First Friday is proximal to the patriotic distraction of Independence Day, and maybe you're not so much thinking about art. While it's clearly important to drink American beer while listening to Toby Keith and reading the Constitution by the light of exploding fireworks this weekend, there are some art exhibits open in the Crossroads Art District on Friday night, among which you'll find an informal non-reception at the Late Show (1600 Cherry) for artists Steven Frink and David Gant. Gall

  July 2, 2009

• Strum and Twang: Hootie at Last! Plus Toby Keith and a re-match with Rascal Flatts

  This week's three (plus one) top 10 country hits demonstrate the full range of approaches available to Nashville's hit-making men. There's Toby Keith's beefy traditionalism, Billy Currington's barroom morality tale, Darius Rucker's poppy reassurances, and Rascal Flatt's party-time crossover abomination. They also demonstrate the limitations of those artists' producers, as every song here resorts to the cheap trick of dropping out most of the instruments for a dramatic hush just before the final

  July 14, 2009

• Toby Keith

  July 30, 2009

• Concert Review: Toby Keith at Sprint Center

  Because he's a ka-jillionaire whose product is mostly shoveled by Wal-Mart and is therefore in no position to sell out anyway, I don't know why it surprised me that Toby Keith, that big ol' hunk of American angus, opened his Friday-night Sprint Center show with a seven-minute Ford commercial. Camille Brecht​ Or that hearty Ford logos bedecked his tailgate-themed stage set. Or that this stirred reverential whoops from the breasts of an audience more like constituents than mere fans. "S

  August 3, 2009

• Pitch Music Showcase Roundup: the Beaumont Club

  It's safe to say that the night of the Showcase is one of the best nights of the year to go out... even better than New Year's Eve, Irish Fest, Rock Fest, the first First Friday of the summer or your cousin from Blue Springs' bachelor or bachelorette party at Toby Keith's. It's awesome. You don't even have to be a hipster to have fun. It'll be hard to ever again find the energy I felt back in 2006 at the Showcase when onemilliontinytinyjesuses had a packed house at the Dark Horse standing in wi

  August 10, 2009

• Concert Review: the Get Up Kids at VooDoo Lounge

  BY IAN HRABE When you tell someone you're from Kansas you will get one of two responses. Some people will immediately reference The Wizard of Oz, and if you are outside of the midwest you are almost guaranteed to have someone remind you that "you're not in Kansas anymore." The more saavy bunch will immediately bring up the Get Up Kids. My response to this was that Jim Suptic's mom was my 7th grade math teacher, and that this led not only to my discovery of the band but triggered the punk-rock a

  September 14, 2009